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...keep coming back to Shakespeare? The hard truth is that most modern theatergoers can fully grasp only a fraction of his dense Elizabethan dialogue. Critics, moreover, seem intent on making the experience even more intimidating: they become stern schoolmasters when judging those who dare tackle the iambic pentameter. Alec Baldwin's brawny, quite watchable Macbeth at New York City's Public Theatre last winter drew testy reviews. Still the show was a sellout...
...great wall of China snakes like a stern dragon through the opening shots of Mulan, a strange and beguiling new breed of Disney animated feature. This is, in part, a war movie that understands loss, desolation, death. Power and discipline are the motifs here: bending your will and others', bending the system while working within it. The villain, a crazed, WWF-style hulkster named Shan-Yu, has no comic irony softening his brute trapezoidal lines. He's just an evil machine with vampire teeth. The Wall, the vast plains and hills, the Forbidden City itself, all cringe at his shadow...
...Lewinsky case, being called in by Judge Norma Holloway Johnson is the nearest thing to taking a trip to the principal's office. Johnson was working overtime Monday night, hauling Starr prosecutors, White House counsels and the latest batch of Lewinsky lawyers into her chambers for a stern lecture on why they shouldn't talk to strange reporters. The reason for the reprimand: Growing controversy over Ken Starr's interview with Brill's Content magazine cofounder Steve Brill, in which Starr admitted leaking sensitive information to selected journalists. The Justice Department now says it's "examining" Brill's article. Janet...
Washington delivered stern diplomatic notes last week warning both countries not to fit nuclear warheads on missiles. The Administration plans to press them to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and begin serious negotiations to halt production of the plutonium and highly enriched uranium that fuel their bombs. The U.S. also wants to try to mediate their long-running dispute over Kashmir...
...said, "We...believed in him not just as an actor, but as an artistic, spiritual and specifically American leader." But this was not a role that suited him, for there was nothing in his nature that he could draw on to fill it out. The son of alcoholics--a stern taciturn father; a sweet, culturally aspiring mom--he had drifted to New York City and into acting when he was expelled from the military school that was supposed to shake the flakiness from his soul...